WL//WH New Music: CROWJANE “Nomad”

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Los Angeles-based esoteric Post Punk artist Heather Galipo, under her CrowJane moniker, has released a music video shot on location in Northern France by Brendan O ’Neal for the track “Nomad”, taken from last year’s EP Bound to Me” via Kitten Robot Records.

Currently performing as a full band, CrowJane has been an integral part of  LA’s contemporary underground music scene, wreaking havoc in bands such as post-punkers Egrets on Ergot, noise-rockers Prissy whip, and her part in the LA-based 1977s punk current edition of The Deadbeats.

The close friendship and support from LA Punk Legend Paul Roessler (Screamers, Nina Hagen, 45 Grave, Deadbeats), was crucial in using the therapy of making/ writing music, locked in his studio, to get through trauma/hardships in her life.

The song ‘Nomad’ in a nutshell is about war. The ceaseless spilling of blood and the aftermath. The chorus has a kind of hopeful tune in the mix of grim versus. Talking about the rise of a new dawn when the killings are over.

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A back and forth between dire gloom and post-apocalyptic bliss ignites ominous stomping and crushing percussive hits under cold emotional female vocals, releasing fear and suffering with soaring pain-filled cries, before shifting into softer celestial distorted breathes merged with stumbling percussive patterns, poignant orchestral strings, and droning synth mists, leaving the listener torn between doom and hope.

At the end of last year, I was working on a psychological thriller movie in a Chateau in Northern France. The crew and I were listening to my, about to be released, EP Bound To Me. The drone/camera operator Brendan O’Neal, along with some other crew, suggested shooting some music video footage at this amazing castle we were all living in. We agreed that the song ‘Nomad’ was the most fitting for the location.

The cinematic visuals for “Nomad” use evocative drone footage shot by Brendon O’Neal and Davy Pelletier to take the viewer into the surreal and shadowy realm of the soundtrack. An old European chateau nestled in the woods of Northern France sets the stunning backdrop for CrowJane and her friends, whose Gothic style enhanced by Eli Leonard’s ghostly editing creates a dark aesthetic fantasy.

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